The Flatlanders

The Flatlanders are a country band from Lubbock, Texas founded by Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Joe Ely, and Butch Hancock.

Related Topics:
Country band - Lubbock, Texas - Jimmie Dale Gilmore - Joe Ely - Butch Hancock

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Gilmore founded The Flatlanders in 1972; it has been performing on and off since then.

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The band's first recording project, from the early 1970s, was barely distributed. It has since been acknowledged, through reputation and then Rounder's 1991 reissue More a Legend Than a Band, as a milestone of progressive, alternative country.

Related Topics:
1970s - Rounder - 1991 - Alternative country

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The three musicians continued to reunite for occasional Flatlanders performances. In 1998 they contributed to the soundtrack of The Horse Whisperer, and then in 2002 released their long-awaited follow-up album, Now Again, on New West Records. In 2004 this was followed with Wheels of Fortune, again on New West.

Related Topics:
1998 - The Horse Whisperer - 2002 - New West Records - 2004

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In 2004, New West released Live '72 a live recording of the then-unknown country band performing at the One Knite honky-tonk in Austin, Texas.

Related Topics:
Honky-tonk - Austin, Texas

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